Books are like mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
("The Shadow of the Wind")
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He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, ultil the moment comes when we no longer reconize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses o the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody's best friend.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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